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- From: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: VS4090 fddi boot?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.180216.9462@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Keywords: VAXststion fddi boot
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- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Reply-To: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:02:16 GMT
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- In article <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>, jhf@d0xs1.fnal.gov (John Featherly) writes:
- |>
- |>We just received our VS4000 TCA boards, great!
- |>
- |>Plug one into a 4000-M90 and stick an fddi board on, looks okay so far.
- |>
- |>Finally find the network address of the board by running the MIPS console
- |>emulator and doing "t tc0 cnfg", looks good.
- |>
- |>How do you get it to boot over the fddi adapter?
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- You can't. Its not currently supported and its not clear that it will be.
-
- |>
- |>I finally just booted from the ethernet adapter, turned off DECnet on ethernet
- |>and turned it on for fddi (don't want to be a router). This is VMS V5.5-2HW
- |>by the way.
- |>
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- Thats the recommended way to set it up. Once the system gets sysboot, etc
- loaded, it will start using fddi for those systems reachable with FDDI, so
- you don't have to have FDDI on all systems nor do you need a bridge between
- FDDI and ethernet.
-
- mulp
- DEC, CVG cluster busters
-